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The Next Great Paulie Fink
by Ali Benjamin
Moving to a tiny school in rural Vermont where she joins a class of just 10 students who have known each other all their lives, Caitlyn struggles to fit in while listening to stories about a genius prankster class clown, who is conspicuously absent. 100,000 first printing.
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The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day
by Christopher Edge
A 10-year-old science enthusiast awakens in another reality and must work with the laws of the universe while trusting in the love of her family in order to set things right. By the award-winning author of The Many Worlds of Albie Bright.
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| The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles; illustrated by Dapo AdeolaStarring: skillful sleuths Otto and Sheed, the Legendary Alston Boys of Logan County, Virginia.
What happens: extraordinary events are nothing new in Logan County, but even adventurers like the Alston Boys have their hands full when their town is frozen in time and troubled by inter-dimensional invaders.
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Lexie's Little Lie
by Emma Shevah
When a jealous lie tears apart her family and threatens her bond with her cousin best friend, Lexie endures calamitous escapades while learning about different kinds of truths and lies, including some truths that can be hurtful.
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Out-of-This World Nonfiction
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| Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet by Buzz Aldrin with Marianne J. DysonWhat it is: an invitation to join the crew of a mission to Mars.
What’s inside: fascinating facts about space, science, and the Red Planet, including details about what it would take for humans to build a city on Mars.
About the authors: Marianne J. Dyson is a former NASA flight controller, and former astronaut Buzz Aldrin was the second person to walk on the moon. |
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| Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian FlocaWhat it is: a dramatic, up-close look at the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon, tracing each step from liftoff to moon landing to returning home.
Why you might like it: large, super-detailed illustrations let you discover not only the facts of the mission, but also the thrilling sense of adventure.
Try this next: If you’re curious about the other Apollo missions, check out Jeffrey Kluger’s To the Moon! Or Suzanne Slade’s Daring Dozen. |
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Countdown : 2979 Days to the Moon
by Suzanne Slade
Powerful free verse and stunning illustrations tell the true story of the American effort to land the first man on the Moon. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced that the United States would try to land a man on the Moon within 10 years. During the 2,979 days that followed his speech, 18 astronauts climbed into spaceships; three of them died before even leaving the ground. Eight rockets soared into space. And 400,000 people--engineers, technicians, scientists, mathematicians and machinists--joined Project Apollo in hopes of making the dream a reality.
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The Race to Space : Countdown to Liftoff
by Erik Slader
A humorous look at the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in space exploration known as the Space Race and the innumerable failures that paved the way to the first lunar landing.
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Ten of the Best Adventures in Space
by David West
Presents ten stories of adventures in outer space, including the first spacewalk, the 1981 space shuttle disaster, and dangerous mechanical failures.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 8-11!
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Chester Library 250 W Main St. Chester, New Jersey 07930 (908) 879-7612
chesterlib.org
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